LOS ANGELES – A man was critically injured this morning when he fell face down on the sidewalk after tying himself with clothing to the outside of his second-floor Los Angeles apartment building in an attempt to break in, a police said.

The fall occurred at 1:35 a.m. at Pico Boulevard and 6th Avenue, said Sgt. Richard Estevez of the Los Angeles Police Department Wilshire Station. The injured man and his roommate had locked themselves out of their apartment, located on the floor above businesses, Estevez said.

The roommate decided to sleep in the hallway, but the man who wound up on the sidewalk had a different plan, the sergeant said.

“He tried to make a rope out of clothing and it didn’t work,” Estevez said. The rope failed while the man was hanging outside his apartment and he fell two stories and landed face-first on the sidewalk.

The man was bleeding profusely, a news videographer reported from the scene. Firefighters transported him to a hospital, where he was listed in critical condition, Estevez said.

Man injured after climbing to his apartment with rope made of clothes, falling two floors

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